• Who Wins In the AI Economy?

    The Great Divide — AI, Wealth & You The Family Financial Review March 2026  ·  Special Report AI & The Economy The AI Divide: WhoWins and How YouCan Be One of Them Artificial intelligence promises to create extraordinary wealth, but the world’s largest money manager warns it may leave most people behind. Here’s what that…

  • Thought of the Day: The Right Kind of Likable

    Charles’s Thought of the Day – The Right Kind of Likable Charles’s Thought of the Day The Right Kind of Likable ✦ Likability is not one thing — it is a constellation of traits: charisma, camaraderie, authenticity, aura, and empathy, all wrapped up in how you engage with the world and how the world engages…

  • The Big Disconnect That Made OpenAI’s Robotics Chief Leave

    The Fracture Line — OpenAI, the Pentagon & the Ethics of Autonomous War Analysis  ·  Technology & Defense  ·  March 2026 AI Ethics & National Security The Fracture Line When OpenAI’s head of robotics walked away over a Pentagon deal, she didn’t just resign. She exposed the gap between Silicon Valley’s ethical promises and the…

  • Jesse Jackson Leaves a Legacy At 84

    “𝐁𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐲, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐮𝐥𝐭. 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐲; 𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐠𝐞𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞.” In 1966, Bob Fitch captured this article image of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rev. Jesse Jackson at Penn Center on St. Helena Island, per Benjamin Watson, it was near Frogmore, South…

  • Is ‘learning to code’ bad advice for students in 2026?

    For a decade, “Learn to Code” was the ultimate career cheat code. From bootcamps to high school curriculums, the message was clear: Master Python or JavaScript, or get left behind. But as we navigate 2026, the tides have turned. The arrival of sophisticated AI agents hasn’t just tweaked the industry; it has inverted the value…

  • Leaning Into Big Signals Is Worth It

    Meet Matt Hall and John Watkinson, the co‑founders of Larva Labs and the original creators of CryptoPunks, one of the first major NFT art collections on Ethereum. Who Matt and John are They are Canadian software developers and artists who met studying computer science in the 1990s and have collaborated ever since.​ Together they created Larva Labs,…

  • So What’s New In k8s (Kubernetes) Land?

    Kubernetes 1.35: Moving from Static to Fluid Infrastructure The CNCF has officially announced Kubernetes 1.35, a landmark release that introduces zero-downtime resource scaling for production workloads. By making in-place pod resource adjustments generally available (GA), platform teams can now update CPU and memory on running pods without restarts or service disruption. This marks a fundamental…

  • Thoma Bravo Closes Acquisition of PROS Holdings, Inc. – What now?

    When acquisition announcements hit the wire, there’s always an initial wave of cork-popping optimism—talk of “exciting opportunities,” “strategic synergies,” and “accelerated growth.” Town halls buzz with carefully crafted messages about transformation and unprecedented potential. Leadership teams speak in aspirational terms about taking the company to new heights. But once the press releases fade and integration…

  • The Big Coupang Breach and the Cost of Misplaced Trust

    When Coupang’s CEO Park Dae-jun resigned following a massive data breach, the news hit differently than the usual executive departure. His exit wasn’t a golden parachute or strategic pivot—it was accountability made visible. The numbers tell a relentless story: roughly 600 million breach attempts occur daily, with threat actors launching attacks approximately every three seconds.…

  • AWS re:Invent 2025, the Future of Big Enterprise Automation

    December 1-4, 2025 | Las Vegas, Nevada AWS re:Invent 2025 just wrapped up in Las Vegas, and if there’s one thing that’s crystal clear, it’s this: Amazon Web Services is going all-in on autonomous AI and next-generation infrastructure. Over four days of keynotes, announcements, and demos, AWS unveiled a vision where AI assistants evolve into…